Yup, I too have made that mistake all too often. It seems natural,
yet it doesn't even make a bit of sense.
-Dave
On 04/09/2015 01:48 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> I too confused application to technology - if it was made to generate
> accounting reports, how interesting could the technology be?
>> Lionel
>>> On Apr 9, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 04/09/2015 08:30 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> As I recall, the AS/400s were also very interesting machines - from a
>>> technology implementation perspective. I seem to recall they could emulate
> (in
>>> microcode?) earlier System/36-type systems...
>>>> As I understand it, one or two very early models of AS/400 have this
>> ability. Apparently they can run an entire copy of SSP (the System/36
>> operating system) in what amounts to a virtual machine.
>>>> Very interesting indeed.
>>>> I am hoping to learn a lot more about that. There's some very
>> interesting technology in those machines. All my life I had dismissed
>> them as dull, closed, "all business" machines, where my focus has always
>> been on scientific computing. But dull they most certainly are
>> not...those IBMers did some really good stuff in those designs. They
>> really knew what they were doing.
>>>> -Dave
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>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
>> New Kensington, PA
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